All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway in
War
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway in
Sports
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway in
War
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway
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